Want To Take Your Portfolio Around the World? These ETFs May Help

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Adé Hennis, The Motley Fool

Sat, January 24, 2026 astatine 10:30 AM CST 4 min read

The Schwab International Equity ETF offers a overmuch little disbursal ratio and higher dividend output than the iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF.
Both funds are broadly diversified, but ACWX includes much companies and a somewhat higher tech allocation.
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Both the Schwab International Equity ETF (NYSEMKT:SCHF) and iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF (NASDAQ:ACWX) are designed arsenic halfway planetary equity ETFs, offering vulnerability to emerging and developed markets extracurricular the United States. This examination examines their costs, performance, risk, portfolio makeup, and different notable differences to assistance investors recognize which whitethorn amended acceptable their needs.

Metric

SCHF

ACWX

Issuer	Schwab	IShares
Expense ratio	0.03%	0.32%
1-yr instrumentality (as of Jan. 24, 2026)	32.25%	31.86%
Dividend yield	3.25%	2.7%
Beta	0.81	0.74
AUM	$57.14 billion	$8.53 billion

Beta measures terms volatility comparative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year play returns. The 1-yr instrumentality represents full instrumentality implicit the trailing 12 months.

SCHF is importantly much affordable, charging conscionable a 0.03% disbursal ratio versus ACWX’s 0.32%, and it besides pays a higher dividend output of 3.3% compared to 2.7%.

Metric

SCHF

ACWX

Max drawdown (5 y)	-29.15%	-30.06%
Growth of $1,000 implicit 5 years	$1,342	$1,267

Operating for astir 18 years, the iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF holds 1,796 companies, providing wide vulnerability to non-U.S. stocks, with its apical 3 assemblage holdings being fiscal services (24%), industrials (14%), and exertion (14%). Its largest positions are Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW), Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK), and ASML Holding Nv (AMS:ASML).

A small implicit a twelvemonth younger, the Schwab International Equity ETF is likewise diversified, with 1,498 holdings, but its third-highest assemblage allocation is user discretion. Its apical 3 holdings are ASML Holding, Samsung Electronics Ltd (005930.KS), and Roche Holding Par Ag (SIX:ROG.SW).

With some ETFs excluding U.S. stocks from their holdings, investors based successful the U.S. should beryllium alert of the risks associated with investing successful these ETFs compared to U.S.-centered funds.

International stocks tin determination precise otherwise from American stocks and grounds volatility that U.S. investors whitethorn not beryllium utilized to, arsenic those overseas stocks whitethorn determination much intimately successful enactment with the applicable country’s economical and governmental structures and events. U.S. investors whitethorn privation to support an oculus connected applicable events successful the applicable overseas state oregon continent to amended recognize the companies and the banal associated with each ETF.